Which Cars Have Self-Driving Features for 2019?
Want to buy a self-driving car? Bad news: Despite prototype test fleets in many cities and widespread reports of their imminence, driverless vessels that putter from home to destination while you sleep, read or tweet remain something you still can’t nab at the local auto mall. The closest production car to that reality was to be the new Audi A8, equipped with the new Traffic Jam Pilot feature capable of navigating highway gridlock while you watched the morning news on the dashboard touchscreen. But regulatory hurdles forced Audi to sideline the system for U.S. shoppers, at least for now.
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That said, many cars still offer elements of self-driving, often called advanced driver assistance systems, on a limited basis. All current U.S. production cars still require drivers to pay attention and take over steering, braking and acceleration in a pinch. But even in these early stages, today’s ADAS technology can still ease the burden of a daily commute.
Many will take over acceleration and braking to maintain a consistent pace with the car ahead, even down to a full stop in traffic. Some will keep the car centered in its lane by reading lane markings, by the position of the car ahead or by some combination of the two. And a few will even let you take your hands off the wheel, provided a driver-facing camera intuits your attention. Of course, all of them require the right conditions — from sufficiently visible lane lines and speed thresholds to GPS-linked highways, depending on the system.
Which cars have these features? We reached out to automakers, combed through owner’s manuals and categorized major capabilities across more than 200 cars from 33 mainstream brands. For the 2019 model year, here’s the lay of the self-driving land.
Acura
Lane-centering steering at higher speeds only:
- 2019 Acura ILX
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop with lane-centering steering at higher speeds only:
- 2019 Acura TLX
- 2019 Acura MDX
- 2019 Acura MDX Sport Hybrid
- 2019 Acura RDX
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Acura RLX
- 2019 Acura RLX Sport Hybrid
What should I look for? Acura bundles most driver-assist tech under its AcuraWatch suite of features. Depending on the car, AcuraWatch includes a Lane Keeping Assist System, Adaptive Cruise Control with Low-Speed Follow, or both. Meanwhile, the RLX and RLX Sport Hybrid add Traffic Jam Assist, which incorporates lane-centering steering down to a stop.
Alfa Romeo
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Alfa Romeo Giulia
- 2019 Alfa Romeo Stelvio
What should I look for? Adaptive Cruise Control Plus with Full Stop.
Audi
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Audi A3/S3/RS3
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Audi A4/S4
- 2019 Audi A5/S5/RS5
- 2019 Audi A6
- 2019 Audi A7
- 2019 Audi A8
- 2019 Audi e-tron
- 2019 Audi Q5/SQ5
- 2019 Audi Q7
- 2019 Audi Q8
What should I look for? Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop and Go, Adaptive Cruise Assist, or Traffic Jam Assist. The latter in particular enables lane-centering steering from a stop all the way to highway speeds.
BMW
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 BMW i3
- 2019 BMW X1
- 2019 BMW X6
- 2019 BMW Z4
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 BMW 5 Series
- 2019 BMW 5 Series plug-in hybrid (530e)
- 2019 BMW 6 Series
- 2019 BMW 7 Series
- 2019 BMW 7 Series plug-in hybrid (740e)
- 2019 BMW X3
- 2019 BMW X4
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop with hands-free steering at lower speeds only:
- 2019 BMW 3 Series
- 2019 BMW 8 Series
- 2019 BMW X5
- 2019 BMW X7
What should I look for? BMW’s Adaptive cruise control that operates all the way to a stop goes by Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go. One step beyond that, Active Lane Keeping Assist with Side Collision Avoidance constitutes hands-on, lane-centering steering that can work down to a stop in certain traffic conditions. Finally, Extended Traffic Jam Assistant is a new feature available on the redesigned 3 Series and X5 plus the new 8 Series and X7. ETJA enables hands-free driving at low speeds on divided highways as long as you’re paying attention, something the car intuits with a driver-facing camera. It makes BMW one of two brands on the U.S. market (the other is Cadillac) to offer provisional hands-free driving.
Buick
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Buick Enclave
- 2019 Buick Envision
- 2019 Buick LaCrosse
- 2019 Buick Regal
- 2019 Buick Regal TourX
What should I look for? Depending on the car, Adaptive Cruise Control with Full-Speed Range or Adaptive Cruise Control Advanced.
Cadillac
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Cadillac ATS
- 2019 Cadillac CTS
- 2019 Cadillac Escalade
- 2019 Cadillac Escalade ESV
- 2019 Cadillac XT4
- 2019 Cadillac XT5
- 2019 Cadillac XTS
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop and hands-free steering:
- 2019 Cadillac CT6
What should I look for? Adaptive cruise control down to a stop comes in the form of Cadillac’s Adaptive Cruise Control Advanced. Hands-free lane-centering steering, which works from a stop all the way up to highway speeds on certain highways, comes via Cadillac’s Super Cruise system. Introduced a model year ago on the CT6, Super Cruise is no longer the only hands-free steering system in a U.S. production vehicle — BMW now offers the capability, too — but it remains the only one that can do it all the way up to highway speeds. Super Cruise doesn’t relieve you of the need to pay attention in order to take over if necessary, something the system intuits through a driver-facing camera.
Chevrolet
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Chevrolet Blazer
- 2019 Chevrolet Equinox
- 2019 Chevrolet Impala
- 2019 Chevrolet Malibu
- 2019 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid
- 2019 Chevrolet Traverse
- 2019 Chevrolet Volt
What should I look for? Depending on the car, Adaptive Cruise Control with Full Range, Adaptive Cruise Control-Advanced, or Adaptive Cruise Control-Camera.
Chrysler
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Chrysler 300
- 2019 Chrysler Pacifica
- 2019 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid
What should I look for? Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop or Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop and Go.
Dodge
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Dodge Charger
- 2019 Dodge Durango
What should I look for? Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop.
Ford
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Ford Expedition
- 2019 Ford Fusion
- 2019 Ford Fusion Energi
- 2019 Ford Fusion Hybrid
- 2019 Ford F-150
Adaptive cruise control and lane centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Ford Edge
What should I look for: Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop-and-Go. The Edge offers that plus Lane Centering, a new system for 2019.
Genesis
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop with lane-centering steering at higher speeds:
- 2019 Genesis G70
- 2019 Genesis G80
- 2019 Genesis G90
What should I look for? Look for Smart Cruise Control with Stop & Go and Lane Keeping Assist; LKA can center the vehicle above roughly 40 mph.
GMC
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 GMC Acadia
- 2019 GMC Terrain
What should I look for? Adaptive Cruise Control-Advanced on the Acadia and Adaptive Cruise Control-Camera on the Terrain.
Honda
Lane-centering steering at higher speeds only:
- 2019 Honda Fit
- 2019 Honda HR-V
- 2019 Honda Odyssey
- 2019 Honda Ridgeline
- 2019 Honda Passport
- 2019 Honda Pilot
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop with lane-centering steering at higher speeds only:
- 2019 Honda Accord
- 2019 Honda Accord Hybrid
- 2019 Honda Civic
- 2019 Honda Clarity
- 2019 Honda CR-V
- 2019 Honda Insight
What should I look for? Honda bundles most driver-assist tech under its Honda Sensing suite of features. Depending on the car, Honda Sensing includes a lane-keeping assist system, adaptive cruise control with low-speed follow, or both.
Hyundai
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Hyundai Elantra GT
- 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric
- 2019 Hyundai Ioniq Electric
- 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe
- 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe XL
- 2019 Hyundai Sonata
- 2019 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid
- 2019 Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid
- 2019 Hyundai Tucson
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Hyundai Nexo
What should I look for? Depending on the car, Smart Cruise Control with Stop/Start or Smart Cruise Control with Stop & Go. The Nexo’s lane-centering steering comes in the form of Lane Following Assist, which works all the way down to a stop. By contrast, Lane Keep Assist (sometimes Lane Keeping Assist) is a separate feature widely available across affiliated brands Hyundai, Kia and Genesis. Hyundai officials won’t call it lane-centering, but in Cars.com’s experience with various LKA-equipped cars from the three brands, LKA does center the car in its lane above moderate speeds. Different cars may have different setups, however, so test drive them for yourself and see.
Infiniti
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Infiniti Q70
- 2019 Infiniti QX30
- 2019 Infiniti QX60
- 2019 Infiniti QX80
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop with lane-centering steering at higher speeds only:
- 2019 Infiniti Q50
- 2019 Infiniti Q50 Hybrid
- 2019 Infiniti Q60
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Infiniti QX50
What should I look for? Infiniti calls its adaptive cruise control with full-stop capabilities Intelligent Cruise Control Full-Speed Range. Lane-centering steering at higher speeds on the Q50, Q50 Hybrid and Q60 goes by Active Lane Control, while Infiniti’s most robust system comes in the QX50’s available ProPilot Assist.
Jaguar
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Jaguar XE
- 2019 Jaguar XF
- 2019 Jaguar XJ
- 2019 Jaguar E-Pace
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Jaguar F-Pace
- 2019 Jaguar I-Pace
What should I look for? Jaguar’s Cruise Control with Queue Assist constitutes adaptive cruise control down to a stop. Steering Assist, a new feature on two Jaguar models for 2019, can center the car in its lane down to a stop. Don’t confuse it with Lane Keep Assist, however; despite going by the same name as many competitors’ lane-centering systems, Jaguar’s LKA is a separate, widely available system that only intervenes as you approach lane markings.
Jeep
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Jeep Cherokee
- 2019 Jeep Compass
- 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee
- 2019 Jeep Wrangler
What should I look for? Depending on the model, Adaptive Cruise Control Plus, Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop, or simply Adaptive Cruise Control.
Kia
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Kia Cadenza
- 2019 Kia Optima
- 2019 Kia Optima Hybrid
- 2019 Kia Optima Plug-in Hybrid
- 2019 Kia Sedona
- 2019 Kia Sorento
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Kia Niro EV
- 2019 Kia K900
What should I look for? Smart Cruise Control with Stop & Go. On the Niro EV and K900, lane-centering steering comes by way of Lane Following Assist; by contrast, Lane Keep Assist (sometimes Lane Keeping Assist) is a separate feature widely available across affiliated brands Hyundai, Kia and Genesis. Kia officials won’t call it lane-centering, but in Cars.com’s experience with various LKA-equipped cars from the three brands, LKA does center the car in its lane above moderate speeds (Kia says it operates from 37 mph and faster). Different cars may have different setups, however, so test-drive for yourself and see.
Land Rover
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Land Rover Discovery Sport
- 2019 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Land Rover Discovery
- 2019 Land Rover Range Rover
- 2019 Land Rover Range Rover Velar
- 2019 Land Rover Range Rover Sport
What should I look for? Land Rover’s Cruise Control with Queue Assist constitutes adaptive cruise control down to a stop. Steering Assist, a new feature on many Land Rover models for 2019, can center the car in its lane down to a stop, circumstances permitting. Don’t confuse it with Lane Keep Assist, however; despite going by the same name as many competitors’ lane-centering systems, Land Rover’s LKA is a separate, widely available system that only intervenes as you approach lane markings.
Lexus
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Lexus LX
- 2019 Lexus NX
- 2019 Lexus NX Hybrid
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to stop:
- 2019 Lexus GS
- 2019 Lexus RX
- 2019 Lexus RX Hybrid
- 2019 Lexus LC
- 2019 Lexus LC Hybrid
- 2019 Lexus ES
- 2019 Lexus ES Hybrid
- 2019 Lexus LS
- 2019 Lexus LS Hybrid
- 2019 Lexus UX
- 2019 Lexus UX Hybrid
What should I look for? All-Speed Dynamic Radar Cruise Control, which works down to a stop. Lane-centering steering comes as either Lane Keep Assist or Lane Tracing Assist, depending on the vehicle. Both systems work down to a stop, but the latter — available on the ES, LS and UX — has better reckoning thanks to a higher-performance camera and the ability to see lane markings and the vehicle ahead, as opposed to lane markings only for LKA.
Lincoln
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Lincoln Continental
- 2019 Lincoln MKZ
- 2019 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid
- 2019 Lincoln Navigator
Adaptive cruise control with lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Lincoln Nautilus
What should I look for? Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop-and-Go. The Nautilus combines that with Lane Centering, a new system for 2019.
Maserati
Adaptive cruise control with lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Maserati Ghibli
- 2019 Maserati Levante
- 2019 Maserati Quattroporte
What should I look for? Maserati’s available Adaptive Cruise Control functions all the way down to a stop. The brand’s Highway Assist System can center the car all the way to a stop, but it only works on highways intuited through GPS. Don’t confuse it with Lane Keep Assist, a separate system that works above 37 mph across a broader spectrum of roads but only intervenes as you approach the lane markings.
Mazda
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Mazda3
- 2019 Mazda6
- 2019 Mazda CX-3
- 2019 Mazda CX-5
- 2019 Mazda CX-9
What should I look for? Mazda Radar Cruise Control with Stop and Go. The redesigned Mazda3 has a Traffic Jam Assist system with low-speed lane-centering steering, but Mazda isn’t offering the feature in the U.S. market for 2019.
Mercedes-Benz
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz SLC-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz A-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz C-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Plug-in Hybrid (C350e)
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz E-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz S-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class Plug-in Hybrid (GLC350e)
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class
- 2019 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class
What should I look for? For 2019, Active Distance Assist Distronic and Active Steering Assist — far simpler terminology than Mercedes’ raft of terms for such functions just one model year ago.
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Mini
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Mini Clubman
- 2019 Mini Countryman
- 2019 Mini Cooper S E Countryman plug-in hybrid
What should I look for? Look for Camera-Based Cruise Control with Stop&Go.
Mitsubishi
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander
- 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
- 2019 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross
What should I look for? Mitsubishi simply calls it Adaptive Cruise Control.
Nissan
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Nissan Armada
- 2019 Nissan Maxima
- 2019 Nissan Murano
- 2019 Nissan Pathfinder
- 2019 Nissan Sentra
Adaptive cruise control with lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Nissan Altima
- 2019 Nissan Leaf
- 2019 Nissan Rogue
- 2019 Nissan Rogue Sport
What should I look for? Intelligent Cruise Control Full-Speed Range or, in many cases, simply Intelligent Cruise Control. Meanwhile, the most robust system — with both adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering down to a stop — comes with the automaker’s available ProPilot Assist system.
Porsche
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Porsche 718 Boxster
- 2019 Porsche 718 Cayman
- 2019 Porsche 911
- 2019 Porsche Panamera
- 2019 Porsche Panamera E-Hybrid
- 2019 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo
- 2019 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo E-Hybrid
- 2019 Porsche Macan
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Porsche Cayenne
- 2019 Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid
What should I look for? Simply, Adaptive Cruise Control. Lane-centering in the Cayenne, meanwhile, goes by Active Lane Keep Assist.
Ram
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Ram 1500
- 2019 Ram 2500
- 2019 Ram 3500
What should I look for? Depending on the model, Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop, or Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop and Go.
Subaru
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Subaru Ascent
- 2019 Subaru Crosstrek
- 2019 Subaru Forester
- 2019 Subaru Impreza
- 2019 Subaru Legacy
- 2019 Subaru Outback
- 2019 Subaru WRX
What should I look for? Subaru’s EyeSight system, which bundles adaptive cruise control down to a stop with various safety technologies. EyeSight’s Lane Keep Assist function can only apply steering corrections as you approach lane markings; it won’t center the vehicle in its lane. The redesigned 2020 Legacy will debut EyeSight’s new lane-centering capability, but no 2019 models have it yet.
Tesla
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering down to a stop:
- 2019 Tesla Model 3
- 2019 Tesla Model S
- 2019 Tesla Model X
What should I look for? Autopilot, Tesla’s wide-reaching semi-autonomous driving system. Although Tesla bills it as a hands-on-the-wheel system, early versions allowed you to drive hands-free for extended periods of time. The automaker has since updated Autopilot’s software on existing and new cars to deactivate itself if it senses drivers’ hands are repeatedly off the wheel. Note that since Tesla regularly updates significant aspects of its vehicles after you buy them, capabilities in the above cars may change as they’re on the road.
Toyota
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Toyota Avalon
- 2019 Toyota Avalon Hybrid
- 2019 Toyota Camry
- 2019 Toyota Camry Hybrid
- 2019 Toyota C-HR
- 2019 Toyota Prius
- 2019 Toyota Prius Prime
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to stop:
- 2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback
- 2019 Toyota RAV4
- 2019 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid
What should I look for? Adaptive cruise control down to a stop comes through Toyota’s All-Speed Dynamic Radar Cruise Control. For lane-centering steering, look for Lane Tracing Assist.
Volkswagen
Adaptive cruise control down to a stop:
- 2019 Volkswagen Arteon
- 2019 Volkswagen Atlas
- 2019 Volkswagen e-Golf
- 2019 Volkswagen Golf
- 2019 Volkswagen Golf Alltrack
- 2019 Volkswagen Golf GTI
- 2019 Volkswagen Golf SportWagen
- 2019 Volkswagen Jetta
- 2019 Volkswagen Tiguan
What should I look for? Adaptive Cruise Control plus one of three capabilities: Follow2Stop, Follow2Stop with Assisted Go, or Stop and Go. As their names suggest, all three systems will bring the car to a full stop, but they vary in how long they keep the car stopped and how you accelerate afterward.
Volvo
Adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering, both down to a stop:
- 2019 Volvo S60
- 2019 Volvo S90
- 2019 Volvo V60
- 2019 Volvo V90
- 2019 Volvo V90 Cross Country
- 2019 Volvo XC40
- 2019 Volvo XC60
- 2019 Volvo XC90
What should I look for? Volvo’s Pilot Assist system, which incorporates lane-centering steering and adaptive cruise control all the way to a stop.
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More About the Systems
Myriad differences exist in the systems listed above, and performance varies widely. In our evaluations, some systems maintain fastidious lane-centering and respond smoothly to changing traffic conditions. Others can allow significant wandering in your lane, react suddenly to changing traffic patterns, or both. Varying conditions, from weather to road markings, can affect whether — and how well — each system works. It’s a good idea to download the owner’s manual of your prospective car to learn how its self-driving systems work, and ask a dealer specialist for a tutorial when you buy the car. And, of course, pay attention to the road.
Want to know more? Read on.
- Adaptive cruise control down to a stop: This feature builds on basic adaptive cruise control, a decades-old feature that maintains a selectable distance between you and the car ahead. Adaptive cruise that works at higher speeds is widely available, but systems that function down to a full standstill are an important next step to manage bumper-to-bumper traffic. Such systems can bring you to a full stop in traffic. Some require you to apply the brakes and reaccelerate afterward, while others can resume speed when the car ahead moves within a given timeframe.
- Lane-centering steering: This goes beyond lane-departure steering assist, which intervenes only as you approach or cross the lane markings — and often pinballs you back toward the opposite markings — to actively center the vehicle in its lane by tracking lane markings, the vehicle ahead or some combination of the two. Such systems can often negotiate mild curves, as well, but nearly all of them require you to keep your hands on the wheel, issuing warnings and eventually deactivating if they sense a lack of steering force after a short time. Many lane-centering steering systems will also deactivate if lane markings disappear, which often occurs with construction zones, merging lanes or poorly marked roads. Some systems operate only above or below a certain speed threshold, but most modern systems now function from a stop all the way up to highway speeds.
- Hands-free steering: This centers the car without your hands on the wheel. For 2019, only two systems — Cadillac’s Super Cruise and BMW’s Extended Traffic Jam Assistant — do this. Both require you to pay attention, intuited via driver-facing cameras.
Editor’s note: This story was updated June 6, 2019, with clarifications on Maserati’s lane-centering steering. This story was updated March 3 and March 12, 2020, to add vehicles with adaptive cruise control for Hyundai and Mercedes-Benz, as well as to reflect that lane centering from Jaguar and Land Rover works down to a stop.
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